Set up a Saved Search on ebay and they will notify you each time one comes up for bidding. I have done this with some success. You will find at times the prices are through the roof and other times you will say why didn't I bid, because they go for next to nothing. Determine what you want to pay, be a little flexible, if it fits your needs exactly, raise your bid a little, if it will take a little more work than you wanted to put in, lower it. Put your best offer in and leave it. If there are snipers after it, it's hard to beat them, unless you pay for the service.
Good luck,
Richard
tstage McDonald's refused to remove the trans-fats and high fructose corn syrup from their Life-Like menus so Walthers (the new owners of Life-Like) had them shut down. Tom
McDonald's refused to remove the trans-fats and high fructose corn syrup from their Life-Like menus so Walthers (the new owners of Life-Like) had them shut down.
Tom
That's why we model the 1950s. No worry about trans fats...just Russian nukes.
Matt from Anaheim, CA and Bayfield, COClick Here for my model train photo website
https://tstage9.wixsite.com/nyc-modeling
Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
I have been trying to find an HO scale LIfe-Like McDonalds kit for some time:
Our layout is modeled after Southern California during the late 1950s. So the Life-Like kit is almost perfect for our era and locale.
Of course this kit is an obviously hard one to find. I missed out on two mint conditions kits that were recently listed on eBay (bidding war at the end).
But I don't really need a mint in box/sealed kit. What I'm looking for is a kit that is preferably unbuilt. If built, I need all of the pieces except the large street sign and trash cans. I also don't really need any of the decals/lettering.
Does anyone here have one of these kits, or know of a place that might have one of these?
My email address is: SouthwestChief@gmail.com
I'm aware of the currently available Vollmer kit:
However this model, when compared to the almost spot on Life-Like model, is not very close to the late 1950s buildings found in Southern California.